Innovative Geotechnics

In this tutorial example, the use of the PileGroup program is demonstrated for analysing a pile group subject to TBM launching loading. This example involves a pile group consisting of 20 numbers of 1200 mm diameter CFA piles of 20 m long, which were spaced at three pile diameters in both directions.

PileGroup is a finite-element based program which has been developed to calculate the deformations and loads of pile groups subject to general three-dimensional loadings such as axial and lateral forces and moments applied on the pile caps. The individual piles within the pile group can be vertical or on a batter with the connection between pile heads and pile cap to be fixed, pinned, or elastically restrained by rotational springs.

This blog introduces a very useful tool for pile length variation analysis available in our PileLAT program for laterally loaded piles. When

This blog documents a case study for laterally loaded piles in soils with both cohesion and friction (c-phi soils) using the PileLAT program

We are pleased to announce that PileLAT Version 2.3.1 has been released with the following improvements and updates.

PileLAT program adopts the p-y curve model of liquefied sand recommended in Rollins (2005) based on the full-scale lateral load tests.

A wide range of p-y curves are available in PileLAT and PileGroup programs for modelling behaviour of soils and rocks under lateral loading.